Every corporation WORTH its salt is throwing money at Deep WEB RESEARCH, not least Google. The company that unlocks the mysteries of the Deep Web will obtain POWER of an enormous MAGNITUDE.

After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few MONTHS in Sheffield University as a RESEARCH worker in the pharmacology department but then went BACK to OXFORD to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.

I ENJOY doing the RESEARCH of NONFICTION; that gives me some PLEASURE, being a detective again.

I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for RESEARCH. They're the funniest PEOPLE in the world, yet there is this SAD, beautiful THING in their eyes that says they've seen more than they COULD ever possibly tell you.

We think that it is the best scientists WORKING in the frontier fields of SCIENCE who are best ABLE to judge what is GOOD and what is BAD - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

But with NONFICTION, the TASK is very straightforward: Do the RESEARCH, TELL the STORY.

For Kitty Gilbert in 'Topsy-Turvy,' I had to get to the POINT where I could IMPROVISE in the style of 1880, which is difficult. The research for that was HUGE.

During the COURSE of my research, I had had OCCASION to examine not only SIMPLE compounds, salts and oxides, but also a GREAT number of minerals.

I have SPENT most of my life working with MENTAL illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness WORKERS, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and RESEARCH - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.